Captain Grey had been fighting malarial fever in Savannah when he met Theodora Winnings. He proposed by letter – but it’s taken ten years to receive her reply. The answer was ‘yes’! – but is she still free to become his Christmas bride?

HER CHRISTMAS TEMPTATION by Christine Merrill

Faith Strickland’s plan to marry to save her family backfires when notorious rake James Foley sets out to break her unhappy engagement. He’ll storm her twelfth night celebrations and scorch her into surrender!

AWAKENING HIS SLEEPING BEAUTY by Janice Preston

Lonely Diana Fleming knows handsome knights don’t really exist. But can a festive kiss from the man she loves reawaken her frozen heart?

Three highly romantic and Christmassy stories from three great romance authors, each one is as different from the other’s and yet brought together in this anthology they become entwined and complement each other. Just as with the authors themselves, each author’s own unique writing style is obvious as you read from one story to the next they don’t over whelm each other, they complement each other beautifully.

In this anthology we have the best character’s, all need some Christmas cheer and season good spirits and that is exactly what they find in each of these stories.

Captain Grey’s Christmas Proposal by Carla Kelly

I love the start of this how James and Teddy start telling their love story to their children. While seriously ill while in Savannah James falls madly in love with Theodora, being so far from home and on his death bed he does the only thing that a man in love can do; he proposes to her by letter. Ten years later after being James is wounded again while doing his duty, he can’t seem to get beautiful spirited Teddy out of his head, especially after all these years he finally receives her reply to his question that he asked her. With her yes clutched in his hand he sets sail to America to find the woman who stole his heart, with a prayer that she is still able to marry him, as he fears that he may have lost her after so many years apart.

Will James make it to America and claim the bride that should have been his ten years ago?

Her Christmas Temptation by Christine Merrill

Faith needs to marry, and she needs to marry well other wise her family will be ruined she must make a good match and fast. But her well laid plans till back fire on her the minute she meets James, the most notorious rake in London, he may be charming and too handsome for his own good, but Faith knows that he is not the marrying kind and the thing that he wants from her she cannot give without ruining herself. So, James takes matters into his own hands and goes out to get what he wants, he always gets what he wants and he wants Faith.

Will she give in to his rakish charm?

Awakening His Sleeping Beauty by Janice Preston

Diana is a woman who is so lonely and down-trodden by her demanding and selfish mother, she has lost all sense of who she is until the man who is to one day take on her father’s title and who she has loved since she was a child turns up for Christmas brining with him chaos and happiness. Arron turns her life upside down and he pulls her from her dream like state and makes her believe that she can be happy, and she isn’t the little mouse that every thinks her to be and for the first time in since the death of her brother Diana genuinely looks forward to festive season, Arron awakens her dormant love of the season.

But can he thaw her completely and make her believe in Christmas – and herself again?

Each story is beautifully crafted, they are fun, enchanting and Christmassy to the core. After reading Regency Christmas Wishes you closed the last page with a real, happy buzz, you get a real lovely message of how love can conquer all no matter what stands in our way.

Glassmaker’s daughter Thea Markham is devastated when her brother Daniel goes missing. Then a mysterious lord turns up asking questions about Daniel and offers to find him. Unsure she can trust the handsome peer, Thea dresses up as a boy and follows him!

Lord Vernon Beauchamp feels his life lacks direction. Meeting Thea gives him a renewed purpose. And when they are thrown together on their scandalous adventure, friendship soon gives way to desire…

My View

This is book two in “The Beauchamp Betrothals” the new series by the talented Ms Preston and it is a doozy this time we are getting to know the roguish and charming Vernon, younger brother to Leo Beauchamp from book one. Preston has come out with a real winner with this one and it has definitely become my favourite book out of her work.

Dorothea or Thea (isn’t that a gorgeous name?) Markham’s brother Daniel has gone missing, it isn’t like her brother to just do a bunk without telling her. They have been inseparable since their father had his stroke, they have had to single-handedly run the family glass-making business. Thea has this suspicion that something must have happened to him other-wise he would have come back, and she is desperate to find him but there is a problem she doesn’t want word to get back to her parents about Daniel’s disappearance, her father isn’t well enough and her mother still hasn’t forgiven her for what happened all those years ago that resulted in her father’s stroke.

So how on earth does she find her brother? Right on cue, the answer to her problem turn’s up or should that be adding extra problems!

He was a handsome aristocrat, experienced in the art of flirtation and accustomed to having his own way…well, he would soon find she was too shrewd to allow weasel words and admiring glances to fool her….

Vernon’s brother the Duke received a letter from Daniel Markham which was full of intrigue and not a lot else, and it also mentioned that him and the Beauchamp’s cousin are embroiled in something to find out what the hell is going on Vernon sets out to confront the young buck. So, he sets out to the Markham’s cottage only to find that on arriving he finds only Markham’s insanely intelligent and beautiful sister Thea.

Vernon has never met anyone – especially as young woman to be as plucky and down-right irritating as Thea, she gets under his skin with just a scathing look she tells him in no uncertain terms that she hates him and his kind. He is mesmerized by her intelligence and her vulnerability even as she is cutting him with an icy stare that could fell a forest.

He finds that Thea is there running things single-handedly the business, her father’s ill health and her mother – well she really doesn’t like Thea, she blames her daughter for everything that has happened. Vernon see’s for himself how Thea’s cold fish of a mother treat’s her daughter he see’s how she resents Thea in just one glance. He is instantly drawn to her, he want’s to help this little spitfire and he agrees to look for her brother for her.

She put him in mind of a cornered kitten, fur fluffed up and claws out, ready for a fight. ‘There is no need to stand every time I do,’ she said, placing her fists on the desk and leaning on them. ‘I am not one of your fine ladies, ready to take affront at imagined slights.’‘Maybe you are not,’ Vernon said, quashing down the laugh that tickled his throat. That really would infuriate her. ‘But I, you see, am a gentleman. And I therefore stand when a lady does. Whether she considers herself a lady or no. And taking affront, I quite see that particular emotion is alien to your sunny nature.’

Vernon is an interesting man and, yes we have met him before in the previous book and he had always come across as a rake, but I see so much more to him that. You see that his behaviour is just a cover, a mask so to speak to hide his unsettled mind. Being the so-called “spare to the heir” he feels like no one needs him and he wants to be useful and he wants to be able to do something other than bed hop and be the side kick for his powerful brother. He wants to prove that he is his own man who I don’t think he has anything to prove you see instantly that he is a good man.

I really like Vernon he such an interesting man, he has so many layer’s and the more you strip away one layer another more surprising one comes out into the open. What Preston has done with him is a stroke of pure genius, pairing this vulnerable, if slightly naive to the real world, aristocrat with an aristocrat-hating, working class normal lass is just brilliance and it also mean that you get a lot of fun with them along the way.

She needed reassurance that this man was precisely what he appeared to be: a charming, cultured gentleman. She recalled her fanciful notion that she had glimpsed a wolf beneath his surface: a wolf that watched and waited. What if he had a hidden agenda?

After being burnt by his people Thea wants nothing to do with his kind, she sees them as nothing but a useless waste of space. People who wouldn’t know the concept of good honest, hard work if it danced naked in front of them, and I can relate to her. Thea is cut from the same cloth as so many in the present day and I absolutely believe that like myself and thousands of other working-class women we can all relate and understand Thea in a way that you can’t an aristocratic.

She is a breath of fresh air she is pure and principled and she knows the value of a day’s good honest toil, the bitter sniping that she constantly does at him is so very funny and his reaction to her is of sometimes shock and bemusement. She is not one to think first, she says what’s on her mind and damn the consequences. So, when Vernon tells her that yes, he will help her look for her brother she is jumping for joy and can’t wait to get going, until he informs her that she is not going too. He has said no and she must stay at home while the men do the job.

Well obviously, she is fuming that this arrogant aristocrat dare tell her what she can and can’t do, she is not letting this man go without her so she cuts her hair, dresses like a boy and follows. That is where the fun really starts as these two get tangled in everything from attempted highway robbery to the tortures of having to share a room under the disguise as uncle and nephew.

‘I am not one of your fine ladies who needs mollycoddling. I have dealt with hard reality and survived. Please do not patronise me. Do me the courtesy of dealing with me as an intelligent adult, not a child.’ He sighed.

I hugely enjoyed the last book with Vernon’s brother Leo, but I think The Scandal of Miss Markham outshines its predecessor. I have always liked stories where the heroes/heroines are normal people, regular, run of the mill people who are trying to forge out a life of themselves, and this is absolutely spot on. I think Preston has done a very clever thing at putting two completely different people together, they are from different worlds and so watching the way they interact with one another is very lovely.

The way they show each other their way of life, Thea shows him her way of life in the working class and Vernon shows her his glitzy and privileged world. It is an intelligent, thoughtful and quite poignant piece of writing.

This is sexually charged smooth and enticing, the writing is beyond flawless but it’s the characters that bring this to life they are two beautifully written people who both need love and it is a pure joy to read and I can’t wait to see where Preston is going to take this series.

This was an ARC copy from the author in return for an honest review.

Scandal and Miss Markham is released from 1st October and can be pre-ordered at Amazon.

Just over a year ago nine incredible Historical Romance author’s banded together to create the hugely popular Facebook based; Unlaced Book Club, a very special place where authors, readers and like-minded individuals all get together to discuss Romance, History and have a lot of cheeky fun in between.

Now a year on and with enough books to fill a library and with over two hundred members this club is going from strength to strength and I feel very privileged to be a part of it and be able to experience the fun and good-natured banter that makes this Book Club so special.

So, who are these nine women who brought all this fun and hilarity to the world?

Each one of them are extraordinary writers with the best Romance brain’s in the business, between the nine of them they have brought to the world Rugged Medieval Knight’s, Sinfully Handsome Rakes, Roguish Agent’s, Tormented Military Men, Scandalous Dukes and Gorgeously Brave Vikings. Plus some one the strongest and resilient heroine’s that are the only women in the world that can put up with theses adorable heroes.

Let me introduce you to nine of the best women you will ever meet.

“We are a group of authors who write sassy and sexy historical romance. If you like good books, giggles, and giveaways you’ve come to the right place! At The Unlaced Book Club, we adore heroes that wear breeches or wield a broadsword. We love to chat and have fun, the only thing we ask is that members are respectful of each other and if you’d like to post promotional material, you check with one of the administrators first. So, dive right in and join the conversation. You know you want to…”

Virginia Heath

When Virginia Heath was a little girl it took her ages to fall asleep, so she made up stories in her head to help pass the time while she was staring at the ceiling. As she got older, the stories became more complicated, sometimes taking weeks to get to the happy ending. Then one day, she decided to embrace the insomnia and start writing them down. Fortunately, the lovely people at Harlequin Mills & Boon took pity on her and decided to publish her romances, but it still takes her forever to fall asleep. Virginia is the author of the incredible Wild Warriners series.

Reading List

That Despicable Rogue
The Discerning Gentleman’s Guide
Miss Bradshaw’s Bought Betrothal
Her Enemy at The Alter
A Warriner to Protect Her
A Warriner to Rescue Her
His Mistletoe Wager

If you want to find out more check out virginiaheathromance.com or follow her on Twitter @VirginiaHeath_Click Here

Laurie Benson

Laurie Benson is an award-winning historical romance author who writes books about men in boots and the women who fall for them. She began her writing career as an advertising copywriter, where she learned more than you could ever want to know about hot dogs and credit score reports. Her interest in history began when she was in elementary school, and that interest was fueled by many visits to many museums. In 2015 Laurie was honored to become a Romance Writers of America Golden Heart® finalist. When she isn’t at her laptop avoiding laundry, Laurie can be found browsing antique shops, going on ridiculously long hikes, or sitting in her car on the school pickup line. She lives with her husband and two sons in a house filled with testosterone—even her bunny is a boy.

Reading List

The Unsuitable Duchess
The Uncommon Duke
The Unexpected Countess

Learn more about Laurie by visiting her website at lauriebenson.net. You can also follow her on Twitter at @lauriebwrites and like her on Facebook Click Here

Lara Temple

When Lara was fifteen she found a very grubby copy of Georgette Heyer’s Faro’s Daughter in an equally grubby book store. Several blissful hours later she emerged, blinking, into the light of day completely in love with Max Ravenscar and with Regency Romance. Lara writes strong, sexy, and suspenseful regency romances about complex individuals who give no quarter but deliver plenty of passion. Lara recently went back to look for that grubby crowded little bookstore but couldn’t quite remember around what corner it was…hopefully it is still there and another girl is in the corner by the window, reading and dreaming…

Nicole first discovered romance novels hidden in her grandmother’s closet. Convinced hidden books must be better, Nicole greedily read them. It was only natural she should start writing them (but now not so secretly). If she isn’t working on the next book in the Lovers and Legends historical series.

Reading List

Her Enemy Highlander
The Knights Broken Promise
In Debt to the Enemy Lord
The Highland Brides Laird
The Knights Scarred Maiden

She can be reached at NicoleLocke.com, on Facebook, or Twitter as @NicoleLockeNews. Click Here

Harper St George

Harper was raised in rural Alabama and along the tranquil coast of northwest Florida. It was a setting filled with stories of the old days that instilled in her a love of history, romance, and adventure. By high school, she had discovered the historical romance novel which combined all of those elements into one perfect package. She has been hooked ever since. Harper is the author of the fabulous Viking Warrior series and the Outs of The WildWest series.

Reading List

Enslave by the Viking
One Night With The Viking
The Innocent and the Outlaw
In Bed With The Viking Warrior
Marriage Deal with the Outlaw

Catherine writes witty, heartwarming Regency love stories for Harlequin Mills & Boon. She has loved reading and writing since childhood, and has a particular fondness for love, romance, and happy endings. After a career encompassing speech & language therapy, NHS management, maternity campaigning and being President of a charity, she now works in Sure Start.

Reading List

Waltzing With The Earl

She lives in Ireland with her husband, children, and dog and can be reached at catherinetinley.com, and @CatherineTinley on twitter. Click Here

Janice Preston

Janice Preston writes emotional, sensual and satisfying Regency romance for Harlequin Mills & Boon. She grew up in Wembley with a love of reading, writing stories and animals and has worked as a dairy farmer, a police call-handler and a university administrator. She has two children, two step-children (all now adult) and a gorgeous, cheeky grandson. She now lives in the West Midlands with her husband and two cats and enjoys swimming, yoga and pottering about the garden when the sun is shining.

Reading List

Mary and the Marquess
Cinderella and the Duke
The Governesses Secret Baby
Saved by the Scandal’s Heir

Jenni was born on the north coast of Scotland and now lives in Yorkshire, where she writes historical romance novels set in the Medieval and Victorian eras. She studied English at Clare College, Cambridge and Hull University, before starting to write books of her own Combining her love of history and literature with a special emphasis on alpha males and feisty heroines.

Reading List

Married to Her Enemy
The Convenient Felstone Marriage

Jenni loves hearing from her readers so why not get in touch Click Here

Elisabeth Hobbes

Elisabeth grew up in York where she spent most of my teenage years wandering around the city looking for a handsome Roman or Viking to sweep her off her feet. Sadly it never happened but Elisabeth developed a love of the past and went on to read History and Art History at university before venturing into the world of teaching. These days she holds down jobs as a teacher and mum. She lives in Cheshire with her husband, two young children and two cats with ridiculous names. Elisabeth loves historical fiction and has a fondness for dark haired, bearded heroes. When she’s not writing, she spends a lot of her spare time reading and has become something of a pro at cooking one-handed while holding a book!

Reading List

The Saxon outlaws Revenge
Redeeming the Rogue Knight
The Blacksmiths Wife
Falling for her Captor
A Wager for the Widow

So why not check out each of these author’s work and follow the Unlaced Book Club on Twitter to keep up to date with all their comings and goings. I can guarantee that getting to know these fine women will be the best thing that you will do today. TheUnlacedBookClub

Never welcomed into society circles, Rosalind Allen gave up her marriage prospects long ago―life has taught her she’ll only get hurt. So she’s shocked when an encounter with a mysterious stranger makes her long to reconsider…

Little does Rosalind know that her mystery man is Leo Beauchamp, Duke of Cheriton, travelling in disguise to evade the ladies of the ton! Impoverished Rosalind is the first woman to captivate Leo―but can he persuade this wary Cinderella to trust him with her heart?

Brief Preview

Leo Beauchamp, after being widowed isn’t interested in marrying again or for that matter anything to do with the opposite sex. He has more pressing matters with three children and a ramshackle of an extended family, which includes a rakish morally deficient libertine of a cousin, who has is own views on how and more importantly who should be running the family. And quite frankly he is a right pain in Leo’s, ducal rear end.

So he has more important things on his mind, that is until he comes across a mysterious widow in a lane, she intrigues him more than any woman has done for a very long time. So he decides to take his brothers advise and finally have some fun, he introduces himself as plain old Leo Boynton and soon he finds himself falling under this alluring woman’s spell.

Rosalind Allen and her brother are out casts from the tonish society because of her parents, they eloped and married for love sending the gossips into over drive and bring so-called shame to both families and since then no one in society want to even acknowledge that they exist. But behind the scenes was very different as her Parents soon grew bored and this is what Rosalind thinks all marriages end in. She like Leo finds it difficult to trust even on meeting a handsome and provoking gentleman man, she can’t seem to let herself be happy.

My View

I really like this, even though the title is “Cinderella and the Duke” the fairy-tale isn’t pushed into you face, it is very subtle. You get the Cinderella undertones with a young woman having to do all the chores while the step parent does what he wants, and yes she does meet her own prince charming, but there is just so much more to this.

“silvery eyes narrowed, boring into hers with such intensity her insides performed a somersault. She felt a blush creep up her neck to her cheeks. Despite her aversion to his kind, she could not deny his magnetism. Try as she might, she could not tear her gaze from his, even though the slow curve of his lips in a knowing smile made her blood simmer.”

Leo finds it very difficult to trust people, his marriage wasn’t a love match and it wasn’t a happy match either, it was a more of a duty ticked off this list kind of thing for him. His late wife Margaret; by all account was a real light weight, she was actually a bit of a floozy (I love that word, and I don’t get to use it enough) but she really didn’t deserve what eventually happened to her.

After going through years of what he did with his wife and then when she was murdered he did lose a lot of himself, he shut himself away. He retreated back into his safe, little shell and in some way he has just shut himself down, away from society and family. It’s a way to protect himself but it is such a shame because Leo is a tender, loving and kind man who loves absolutely he is fiercely protective and he is a wonderful father who tries his best for his children, even though all three are legally adults he worries about them like any parent would, and after their shared trauma he is worried how and when I they will get on with their lives.

He is such a catch but not because he is a Duke but the man he is, his character and patience and steel determination makes him the prize. Rosalind is such a very lucky woman to have that silvery gaze locked on her.

“She stamped her foot back to the ground, dropped her skirts and whirled to face Leo, narrowed eyes shooting sparks. ‘Now look what has happened. That…’ she waved towards the hat, floating off downstream ‘…was my favourite hat.’ She was all womanly wrath, full breasts heaving. She is magnificent.”

Leo’s three children are all grieving and tormented by their mothers passing and the way she was brutally taken from them, the eldest Dominic is far too serious for his young years. Then we have the second son, Alex who has been deeply affected by his mothers tragic death; and once you have read it and found out the details you will understand completely why he is so sullen and reclusive. It is actually very heart-breaking once the whole tragic story get unveiled.

I particularly like Leo’s youngest and only daughter Olivia, who after growing up in a predominantly male environment and she has well and truly turned in to a tomboy. But she is definitely a bit of a feminist, she doesn’t like how the men of the world get to basically do what they wish. She is a little spitfire she is cunning and intelligent and not averse to pulling the wool over her families eyes she. She is such a fabulous character she has this great personality.

“‘That would hardly be appropriate, sir. Why, I hardly know you.’ ‘That can soon be remedied.’ He stepped closer, effectively trapping her between his body and that of her horse. A faint gasp—intrinsically feminine—whispered past his ears and his heart responded with a lurch and a yearning he hadn’t experienced for a very long time. He studied her: her fine, creamy skin, the peachy blush of her cheeks and her straight yet delicate nose, the lush pink lips, the fine golden-brown threads of her brows. Her eyes, framed by long lashes, gleamed as they held his gaze. There was curiosity in their depths. No hint of fear or apprehension. Leo stripped off his glove and touched his fingertips to her jaw. Her skin was silky-smooth, soft and warm. The scent of jasmine and warm woman weaved through his senses and blood…”

I really like Rosalind, she is real breath of fresh air and such a good influence on Leo, even though at first they are both in disguise her as a widow and him as a gentleman they soon found solace in each other there is something about these tow that catches your attention. She brings a lightness into Leo’s life something that he hasn’t had for a very long time.

She really does dislike aristocrats and actually with the way she has been treated by them I can’t blame her. She is so much better off away from their world, the only problem is that her step father was an aristocrat and so are her half-brother and sister. So on the death of her step father and to protect herself and he brothers and sister from the new heir and guardian she moves them to the country and takes the name Mrs Pryce so not bring attention to them.

But she soon realises that there is a bigger problem, she finds herself attracted to one of their lot unbeknown that he is actually one of the highest ranking aristocrats in the country.

This isn’t just a sweet and tender Historical Romance about love after loss, there is a real dark undertone to this that makes it intriguing especially when we get into both their individual stories The dark twists in the story do revolve around Lascelle’s who is Leo’s cousin, even though he is a horrid creature he is an excellent character. He really is the kind of character that you just love to hate right from the first moment we see him you just know that there is something very wrong with this guy.

I really do like this, Preston as before has created a hugely likable, edge of your seat thrilling love story that is so much more than what your first think. Yet again Preston doesn’t disappoint with her story telling skills, the plot is a mixture of a story of revenge, betrayal and a fun courtship between two individuals who are both as cynical about love and who both have serious trust issues.

This is a sweet story of two people who seem to think that they are both not destined for happiness but in amongst a turbulent time they find a kindred spirit. This is book one in the new Beauchamp Betrothal Series and judging by this one, this is going to be a delicious series and I can’t wait to read more of this especially if it is going to feature Leo’s brother and all round cheeky chappy; Vernon.

This was an ARC copy from the author in exchange for an honest review.

Cinderella and the Duke is on sale on 29th June and it can be found at Amazon.

New governess Grace Bertram will do anything to get to know her young daughter Clara. Even if it means working for Clara’s guardian, the reclusive and scarred Nathaniel, Marquess of Ravenwell!

Nathaniel believes no woman could ever love a monster like him, until Grace seems to look past his scars to the man beneath… But when he discovers Grace is Clara’s mother, Nathaniel questions his place in this torn-apart family. Could there be a Christmas happy ever after for this beauty and the beast?

My View :

Grace gave her daughter up for adopted at birth, knowing that she would never be able to support her and look after her being an unmarried teenager she had no choice, Grace know’s that was best decision for her daughter Clara but it tore Grace apart.
On finishing governess school she want’s to know if Clara is happy and well looked after with her adoptive parent’s, unfortunately she find’s out that they had both died in a horrific accident and her daughter, Clara is now in custody of her uncle, Lord Ravenwell.

Grace know’s what life can be like for an orphaned child going to live with relatives that don’t care or even like you and she doesn’t want that for her daughter so she takes it upon her self to track down Clara and make sure that she is happy. But what start’s out as a bit of a fishing for information mission end’s with Grace being offered the job as governess to her own daughter and working for the reclusive and yet tormented Marquess.

“You have helped me see the importance of enjoying the Christmas season, for Clara’s sake.” he indicated to the Mistletoe. “Where shall I hang this?”Grace eyed the mass of green. “In here?” she indicated the hall.She looked up and their gazes fused, sending heat spiralling once again through her body, making her skin tingle. Then because it was nearly Christmas, and because she had offered a kiss – more than once – and had been resisted, and just because she felt a tingle like the rebellious Grace Bertram of old, she bent,snapped off a branch and then straightened, holding the sprig of mistletoe above her head.He stilled. Not a muscle twitched as he looked deep into her eyes. . .

This reminds me so much of Beauty and the Beast, a tortured man locking himself away in his hill-top castle, letting the imagination of the near by village take over and the young and beautiful woman venturing into the lion’s den for all good reason’s. After getting over their wariness of one and other they soon fall in love.

Not that any would call Nathaniel a beast he is a vulnerable, elusive and very lonely man who is tormented about what happened in his past when he survived the fire that left him severely scarred and that took he life of his father. But in no way is he a beast, as Nathanial proves on every page there is so much more than what is on the outside, Nathanial is a handsome man in all the ways that matter, he has the kindest heart that I have come across he is protective and honest and once he let’s Grace, in he shows himself to be the perfect gentleman who will do anything even put his own life in peril for those he loves.

She must survive, for Clara’s sake.For his.“Stay with me, my darling Grace. Stay with me.”he had thought that keeping her at bay his growing feelings might wither and die, but he had been wrong. They had continued to twine around his heart until he could no longer ignore the truth.He was in love with Grace Bertram.Fool that he was. he needed to say the word’s. If the worst should happen, he needed her to know.“I love you,” he whispered and pressed his lips to the cool skin of her forehead.He had fallen in love with her. . .

I just love the moment when he finally realises that he loves Grace. He dives into a rampant river to save her from drowning and huddles her close to stave off hyperthermia and in that moment when he is trying to wake her up and warm her he confesses the thing that he has kept hidden, the thing that he never really believed untill that moment. That he loves her, that is so beautiful, even though he still doesn’t believe that she could ever love him. That scene is just beautifully written, and so very romantic.

Nathaniel wrenched his lip’s from hers. “I could never believe a beautiful girl like you would ever look at an ugly monster like me.” He feathered kisses over her face and neck, the blood pounding hot and heavy into his groin.She touched his cheek. “You are far from being ugly or a monster. You are a beautiful man, inside and out”

I do really like this, I haven’t read the previous book’s in the Governesses series, but I don’t think you have to read them in order, this for me is a very stand alone story, it is sweetly written with a lot of sadness and joy, the character’s are well-formed and extremely likable. I would definitely recommend this. Janice Preston is a wonderfully skilled writer in this genre, she has a classy and romantic style and I am looking forward to reading more of her work.

What a better way to ease your self into the christmas spirit then a romantic little christmas story?

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